The BEST episodes of King of the Hill season 4

Every episode of King of the Hill season 4, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of King of the Hill season 4!

In the little town of Arlen, Texas, lives a man who embodies the spirit of the Lone Star State. Hank Hill tends his lawn with pride, never overcooks his steak and sells propane and propane accessories. In this animated series from Mike Judge, Hank and his wife Peggy work to raise their son Bobby, be good neighbors and uphold their middle-class Texas values amid a changing world.

Last Updated: 2/6/2024Network: FOXStatus: Ended
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Little Horrors of Shop
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8.17
330 votes

#1 - Little Horrors of Shop

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/31/1999

When Hank becomes a substitute shop teacher at Tom Landry Middle School, he is so popular that he may beat Peggy as Substitute Teacher of the Year. When Bobby is found bringing a keyhole saw to Hank's shop class, because the class has no tools, Hank gets in trouble for violating the school's zero-tolerance policy on weapons. The punishment is that he may no longer teach shop at Tom Landry.

Directors: Adam Kuhlman
Writer: Kit Boss
Watch Now:Amazon
Aisle 8A
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7.97
289 votes

#2 - Aisle 8A

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/7/1999

Kahn and Minh go to Hawaii on a business trip, leaving Connie with the Hills. Minh leaves Peggy with a thick book of hand written instructions, on "How to be a parent", covering any thing and everything--except Connie's first period. Hank and Connie are left to figure that problem out on their own.

Directors: Allan Jacobsen
Watch Now:Amazon
Hillennium
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7.96
336 votes

#3 - Hillennium

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/19/1999

As the year 2000 approaches, Hank becomes a believer in the Y2K bug. He tries to prepare for the millennium by eliminating modern technology, and instead of buying Peggy the new computer she wanted, he gets her an old grandfather clock. Strickland Propane closes its doors in the midst of the panic, leaving customers lined up at the door, as Hank does the unthinkable, and takes off with the only remaining Propane Tanks.

Directors: Tricia Garcia
Watch Now:Amazon
Flush with Power
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7.95
299 votes

#4 - Flush with Power

Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/7/2000

During a drought, Hank installs low-flow toilets in his house. But he soon finds that they require so many flushes that they actually waste more water than the old toilets. Hank joins the Arlen zoning board in an attempt to get high-flow toilets legalized again.

Directors: Allan Jacobsen
Watch Now:Amazon
Cotton's Plot
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7.94
247 votes

#5 - Cotton's Plot

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/1999

When Peggy gets out of her body cast, she is unable to walk and depressed by the long, slow process of rehabilitation. Cotton decides to teach her to walk again by challenging her, military-style, and inspires her with tales of his wartime heroism. But Peggy starts to lose confidence when she finds out that Cotton's war stories were all fake.

Directors: Anthony Lioi
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
To Kill a Ladybird
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7.93
218 votes

#6 - To Kill a Ladybird

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/12/1999

Bobby adopts a raccoon, Bandit, who bites Ladybird and Dale and then runs off, pursued by Ladybird. Fearing that Bandit might have been rabid, Hank tries to save his dog, while Bobby just wants to find Bandit. Meanwhile, Dale, convinced that he has rabies, runs off to the woods and starts living on mushrooms, which give him hallucinations.

Directors: Wesley Archer
Writer: Norm Hiscock
Watch Now:Amazon
Not in My Back Hoe
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7.89
267 votes

#7 - Not in My Back Hoe

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/28/1999

Hank meets a man, Hal, who is exactly like him in every way and they start to spend time together. He and Hal become great friends, making Dale and Bill jealous. Hank is torn between the friendships, when the group doesn't mesh.

Directors: Shaun Cashman
Watch Now:Amazon
Bills are Made to Be Broken
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7.88
249 votes

#8 - Bills are Made to Be Broken

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/24/1999

Bill's Arlen High School record for touchdowns is about to be broken, by Arlen's current football hero, Ricky Suggs. When Ricky breaks his leg, the other team allows him to score so he can get the record. Outraged by this bad sportsmanship, Hank convinces the Arlen High coach to let Bill (who never officially graduated from high school) play a game so he can get his record back.

Directors: Jeff Myers
Watch Now:Amazon
Movin' On Up
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7.81
265 votes

#9 - Movin' On Up

Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/27/2000

Frustrated with having to obey Hank's house rules, Luanne moves out and rents a house across the street with three other college students. In trying to get her selfish housemates to help out and pay the bills, she finds herself becoming more like Hank.

Directors: Klay Hall
Watch Now:Amazon
Won't You Pimai Neighbor?
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7.79
237 votes

#10 - Won't You Pimai Neighbor?

Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/19/2000

A group of Buddhist monks suspects that Bobby might be the reincarnation of the Lama Sanglug. Bobby enjoys getting caught up in Buddhism, until he and Connie learn that Lamas are not allowed to have girlfriends.

Watch Now:Amazon
Naked Ambition
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7.78
288 votes

#11 - Naked Ambition

Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/20/2000

Bobby accidentally sees Luanne naked, Joseph becomes obsessed with getting a peek as well. When Connie catches Bobby and Joseph standing outside holding binoculars, she accuses them of peeping at her. Meanwhile, Boomhauer accidentally gets committed to a mental institution, and when Dale and Bill try to get him out, they get committed too.

Directors: Anthony Lioi
Hank's Bad Hair Day
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7.73
275 votes

#12 - Hank's Bad Hair Day

Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/9/2000

Hank's long time barber goes senile, so he turns to Bill, an army barber, for his haircuts. Bill gives him a great haircut, but it turns out that the bill for an army haircut comes to $900. When Hank protests this waste, the army base shuts down its barber unit, and Bill is out of a job.

Directors: Gary McCarver
Writer: Jon Vitti
Nancy Boys
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7.71
322 votes

#13 - Nancy Boys

Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/30/2000

Nancy and Dale go to a romantic restaurant and fall in love all over again. Nancy decides to end her affair with John Redcorn and be faithful to her husband. But she soon starts to wonder whether she made the right decision.

Directors: Tricia Garcia
Happy Hank's Giving
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7.70
315 votes

#14 - Happy Hank's Giving

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/21/1999

Hank and his family plan to visit Peggy's family in Montana for Thanksgiving. But their plane is delayed, and when they finally get on the plane, the flight is cancelled when Hank's Thanksgiving turkey is mistaken for a bomb.

Directors: Martin Archer
Hanky Panky
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7.69
212 votes

#15 - Hanky Panky

Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/6/2000

Buck Strickland's wife Miz Liz catches him at a company dinner with his mistress Debbie, and files for divorce. She takes over Strickland Propane, and promotes Hank to Manager. Hank finds himself fending off her advances, when she decides that an affair is the answer. Debbie, who is attracted to men with power, also starts to try and seduce Hank. Meanwhile, Peggy takes over Buck's barbecue joint, Sugarfoot's, and turns it into a standardized restaurant.

Directors: Jeff Myers
High Anxiety
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7.69
232 votes

#16 - High Anxiety

Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/13/2000

Debbie is found dead in the dumpster behind Sugarfoot's restaurant, and Hank is a suspect. Hank was with Debbie's roommate Gayle at the time, but he's afraid to tell the police, because he'd have to admit that he accidentally smoked some of Gayle's marijuana. Buck decides that he loves his wife after all.

Directors: Adam Kuhlman
A Beer Can Named Desire
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7.61
268 votes

#17 - A Beer Can Named Desire

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/14/1999

Hank wins an Alamo Beer contest, which gives him the chance to win 1 million dollars. He travels to a football game in New Orleans to try and win Bobby's college money, amongst other things. Meanwhile, Bill rides along to his aunt's plantation in Louisiana to visit. He is confronted by three very beautiful cousins each with an agenda to marry the last remaining available Dautrieve, who happens to be Bill.

Meet the Propaniacs
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7.61
279 votes

#18 - Meet the Propaniacs

Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/16/2000

Hank finally starts to like Bobby's comedy career when Bobby starts entertaining the employees at Strickland Propane with propane-related comedy.

Directors: Shaun Cashman
Writer: Kit Boss
Transnational Amusements Presents: Peggy's Magic Sex Feet
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7.61
315 votes

#19 - Transnational Amusements Presents: Peggy's Magic Sex Feet

Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/14/2000

Peggy feels ashamed of her big feet until she meets Grant Trimble, who tells her that her feet are beautiful and even videotapes them. Soon Peggy's big feet are a hit on an internet fetish site, peggysfeet.com.

Bill of Sales
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7.54
241 votes

#20 - Bill of Sales

Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/12/2000

Peggy gets caught up in a pyramid scheme, selling Metalife health bars. When she discovers that Bill has a talent for selling the product, she enlists his help. To keep him working for her, she realizes that she has to be mean to him, because being treated badly is the only thing Bill knows how to respond to. Despite all of the recognition that she gets, it isn't worth belittling a friend.

Directors: Dominic Polcino
Rodeo Days
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7.51
204 votes

#21 - Rodeo Days

Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/16/2000

The rodeo comes to town, and Joseph finds his calling, becomes a successful young cowboy star. Bobby also falls in love with the rodeo, and joins in the fun...as a clown. He doesn't tell Hank, until he is called upon to save Joseph, who had turned on Bobby, calling him the joke of the rodeo.

Writer: Jon Vitti
Watch Now:Apple TV
Peggy Hill: The Decline and Fall
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7.42
266 votes

#22 - Peggy Hill: The Decline and Fall

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1999

Peggy survives falling out of a plane, but is in a full body cast. Hank is overcome with guilt at having encouraged her to jump out of the plane, but that might not be the real reason Peggy jumped. Meanwhile, Didi gives birth to a baby boy, whom Cotton names "Good Hank." But Didi and Cotton don't know how to deal with a baby, and they leave most of the work to Bobby.

Directors: Klay Hall
Watch Now:Apple TV
Peggy's Fan Fair
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7.12
263 votes

#23 - Peggy's Fan Fair

Season 4 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/21/2000

When the Hills go to the Country Music Fan Fair in Nashville, Peggy hears Randy Travis singing a new song, "Just the Way God Made Me," and accuses him of having stolen it from her.

Directors: Jeff Myers
Old Glory
star
7.01
182 votes

#24 - Old Glory

Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/9/2000

Bobby gets an F in English, from a former colleague of Peggy's. So she helps him write a new essay, and winds up writing the whole thing. The essay gets an A, and Bobby gets the credit, making Peggy jealous. Meanwhile, Bill brings home a huge American flag from the army base.

Directors: Gary McCarver
Writer: Norm Hiscock